new definitions
In recent years, I've had to change my definition of old. I start saying, "well, I guess that person can't do those things because they're old." And then I remember my 82yo mother is riding her bike to volunteer at the public library playing pickleball three times a week planting, maintaining, and clearing out her front and back yards each year hiking 5+ miles at a time with the Great Old Broads for Wilderness reading multiple library books at a time from the stack of 20 she LIMITS herself to asking her grandchildren about their fascinating lives bookkeeping for local psychologists to name a few of the many things Now I have to say, "When I'm old..." and realize it will be when I'm 104. If not beyond that. Maybe if I keep being willing to change my definitions, I'll make it to where she is.
